Word: florida
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...Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Clemson, Rollins, Syracuse, and William & Mary women's tennis teams--all powerhouses--will participate...
...NOTEBOOK: Kathy Vigna has now won 110 matches for the Crimson in just two years and two tournaments. . . The netwomen host the Harvard Invitational Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Third-ranked Texas and fifth-ranked Florida are among the teams that will compete...
...protectionist surge, indeed, has been pushing some legislators into action against their better judgment. Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons, chairman of a Ways and Means subcommittee on trade, returned in early September from a 24-day swing through Asia alarmed by the prospects of foreign retaliation against American exports, especially farm products, if the bill restricting U.S. textile imports became law. "The Chinese told us without any equivocation, 'If we can't sell you our products, we can't buy your products,' " reported Gibbons. His conclusion: the bill is "about as horrible a piece of legislation as you can imagine." Still...
Last week Florida took a still more drastic step to halt the epidemic: it quarantined the state's 300 commercial citrus nurseries. Said Charles Poucher, director of the state's canker project: "It causes an extreme hardship on nurserymen, but it had to be done because we can't live with citrus canker...
Though the disease is harmless to humans, it spreads easily, carried on clothing and equipment, even on windblown rain. To prevent the canker from spreading beyond its borders, Florida has also forbidden growers to ship fruit to other citrusproducing states...